MentalMaden

Being a good controller means you can be a mediocre healer, because you'll rarely need to do it.

Your story included midichlorians. Get out. The door is that way.

Turning off earn XP for 1/3 of your time is hardly "jumping through ridiculous hoops". It may be a slight inconvenience or even a moderate inconvenience, but far from a ridiculous suggestion. You're just being stubborn now.

At some point though you may need to look at if something is a game problem or a "you" problem. You have the ability to throttle your xp in shutting it off. Why not just use that? Yeah, yeah it's an inconvenience. It's also an inconvenience to devote developer time for something that can so easily be remedied by just turning it off every now and then. Because if this is implemented then someone may come around and want to turn off enhancement drops or recipe drops or influence drops or merit drops, etc etc. When does it end?

The purpose of patrol xp is to allow the casual player the ability to not feel lost so much and to encourage playing alts to stave off burnout. Because keeping the casual player happy and keeping as many people around is the goal here of the developers. Players with personal individual playstyles and needs aren't the "norm" player that is needed to keep the servers we love so much turned on. Like it or not, it's your playstyle that is different than what is considered "intended" play. Now there is nothing wrong with that by any stretch, but maybe it's you that need to adapt and not the developers. Just turn it off every now and then. Problem easily solved. *shrug*

(I'd also argue that it was xp smoothing that made the biggest difference in feel of leveling speed. But that is just more gut feeling than actual hard numbers.)

Patrol XP is the norm though.

Earth/Rad is a great all around, swiss army knife kind of build.

I, for one, welcome our Time Travelling Movie Directing Overlords.

My earth/rad has no shield, no mezz protection or significant +def (to anything) bonuses and get's along just fine. I say it here a lot: You are a controller you are mitigation.

With that said, anything is icing on the cake, so I'd say YMMV and go with what you prefer for that particular toon.

Our little River Tam sure has grown up pretty, hasn't she? (Did she get leg extensions???)

I love this show, I do, but I'm not thrilled with the "will he or won't he" plot with the intersect. It seems to be the goto plot when they aren't moving the overall story forward. And this show has always moved forward and with Chuck unable to access the intersect (Oh no could it be Sara's fault!!! They may have to break up! Spying or Sarah? There goes Chucks happiness.) it feels awfully like the show is spinning it's wheels a little.

Cold sores.

I've actually made a nice chunk of change on the market, but I may take you up on this just for giggles.

Happy Birthday!

*ahem* wrong voice for Captain Outhouse

And he's too busy saving the world and clicking on bombs.

Deepest sympathies for your loss.

I like saving the world and clicking on bombs.

Yes this looks to be my Incarnate of choice for my trollers.

That is just "Discs of Tron" sexxxeh.